Pope sends message
NZPA-Reuter Rome The mother of the Turkish gunman who nearly killed Pope John Paul II in 1981 said yesterday that the Pontiff had given her a message for his attacker. “He told me to tell him he sends his paternal greetings and ask him to keep his morale high and not let his spirits flag,” said Mrs Muzeyen Agca before leaving Rome to visit her son in prison. Mehmet Ali Agca shot and seriously wounded the Pope on May 13, 1981. He is serving a life sentence for the attack.
Pope John Paul saw Mrs Agca in an emotional meeting at the Vatican on Friday and told her he had forgiven Agca when he visited him in in 1983.
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